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that 1 Olid h That Experiments of Imagination, muft be pracYifed by 

 others, and not by a Mans felf. For there be Three means to for- 

 tifie 'Belief ; The dt^ h Experience - t the Second is Reafon ; and the 

 Third is J uthirritie ^ And that of thefe 3 which is farre the mod 

 Potent , is Jutboritk For iBWie/ upon (l^^/bajOrEx^riew^will 

 Stagger. 



For Authority, it is of two Kinds ^ S*/*Vf in an Art; And ifc&f in a 

 And for Things of Belief m an ^r*, A Man may exercife them by Himfelf; 

 But for Be lief m a it muft be by Another. Therefore if a Afrf»beleeve 

 in Apologie, and find a Fjgarc profperous j Or beleeve in Natural Magick, 

 and that a Ring with fuch a £ tone, or fuch a of a Living Creature ,Car- 

 ried, will do good- It may help his Imagination : But the ft/wf in a Man is 

 far the more ABtve. But howfoevcr, all Authority rouft be out of a j/^j 

 Self, turned (as was faid) either upon an Art, or upon a ^4ft * and where 

 Authority is from one Man to another, there the fecond muft be Ignorant , 

 and not Learned, or of Thoughts 5 And fuch are (for the moft part) all 

 witches and Super ftitiow PerfonS; Whofe Belief s> tied to their 7 eachers , and 

 Traditions, are no whit controlled, either by Reafon, or Experience: And up- 

 on the fame *Mfo», in Magick, they ufe (for the moft part) Boys, and Young 

 People ; whofe Spirits eafilieft take Belief, and Imagination. 



Now to fortifie Imagination, there be three wayes ; the Au* 

 tboritie whence the Belief is derived ; Meatus to Quicken and 

 Corroborate the Imagination ; And Memes to (2(e/>eaf it, and <%e- 

 fnjl? it. 



For the Authority, wc have already fpoken: As for the Second j Namely, 

 the Meats to Quicken and Corroborate the Imagination ; We fee what hath 

 been ufe<3 in Magick; (If there be in thofe Practices any thing that is pure- 

 ly Natural ;) As Vestments, Characters, Words, Seals ; Some parts of Plants, 

 or Living Creatures; Stones ; Choice of the Hour ; Gefiures, and Motions ; Alfo 

 Incenses and Odours; Choice Society, which increafeth Imagination ; Dyets , 

 and Preparations for fome time before. And for jvords>there have been ever 

 ufed, either Barbarous Words of no Senfe, left they fhould difturb the Imagi- 

 nation; Or Words of Similitude, that may fecond and feed the Imagination : 

 And this was ever as well in Heathen Char?ns, as in Charms oi later Times. 

 There are ufed alfo Scripture-words; For that the Belief , that ReligUm Texts 

 and have Power, may ftrengthen the Imagination. And for the fame 

 Reafon, Hebrew Words (which amongft us is counted the Holy-Tongue, and 

 rhe Words more myftical) are often ufed . 



For the Refrefhing of the Imagination (which was the Third Means of Ex- 

 alting it) We fee the practices of Magick, as in Images of wax, and the like 3 

 that lhouldMelt by little and littlejOr fome other Things Buried in Muck, 

 that mould Putrifie by little and little ; Or the like : For fo oft as the Ima- 

 ginant doth think of thofe Things, fo oft doth he reprefent to his Imagina- 

 tion, the Efjetl of that he defireth. 



Iftherebe any Power in Imagination, it is leffecredible,that itfhculdbe 

 fo Incorporeal and Immateriate a Virtue, as to work at great Distances ; Or , 

 through all Mediums;Ox. upon all Bt>dus:But that the Diftance muft be com- 

 petent ; The Medium not Adverfej And the Bodie Apt and Proportionate. 

 \ Therefore if there be any operation upon todies , in Abfence by Nature ; 



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